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A third person has been indicted on federal conspiracy charges in connection with a $1 million
identity-theft scheme.

Suheidy A. Warner, 29, of 3365 Eakin Rd. on the Hilltop, has been charged with helping two West
Side residents steal identities that then were used to file bogus income-tax returns. The $1
million came from tax refunds from those returns.

Jose Luis Martinez, 46, of Senator Court, and Mercedes Emelinda-Silie, 40, of Fountain Cove
Lane, were indicted in January and face additional charges from the new indictment.

Warner is charged with conspiracy to defraud the government, conspiracy to commit money
laundering, four counts of aggravated identity theft and 25 counts of converting U.S. monies to her
own use.

Internal Revenue Service investigators said that the three conspirators stole identities from
people living in Puerto Rico, filed income-tax forms in their names and had the refunds sent
primarily to unused apartment mailboxes in the Bronx and other locations in New York.

Couriers brought the checks to Columbus, and Martinez and Emelinda-Silie cashed them, mostly
through two business accounts, the IRS said.

Kathy A. Enstrom, the acting special agent in charge of the IRS criminal-investigation office in
Cincinnati, said the scheme was “driven by insatiable greed and a blatant disregard for the
tremendous damage inflicted on innocent victims.”